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R.I.P. Lloyd Skelton, known as lloydSSJ4 on the Outlaw Star UK forums, who took his life in 2014. He'll never be forgotten. Check out my memorial video here.-Mantis

I just watched The Crow and while I am not big on movies, I must say, that one is very good. I know it is considered kind of a cult classic now but it deserved more praise when it was new. I guess the death of Brandon Lee kind of turned it upside down.

I watched Venom with a few of my buddies yesterday. I used to read Venom a lot as a kid so I was down to check it out despite the negative press and its...pretty damn good actually. In fact, I would go as far as to say that I like this more than most of the MCU movies because, since it's not tied to the MCU universe, it can actually branch out and do it's own thing and I think it's better for it. I've seen some people who lambaste it for not being dark enough or gory enough but you know what? Certain comics did portray Venom as being a bit goofy. In fact, Venom's personality in this movie reminded me a little bit of the way Venom was portrayed in the PS1 Spider-Man game (Anything that brings back memories of that splendid game is A-OK in my books). My only real complaints is that it does have some tired elements (I.E. The main hero fights an evil, superpowered version of himself) and I found the voice Tom Hardy used as Eddie Brock to be kind of goofy. Still, those are just kind of nitpicky. I had a great time with this movie and I consider it to be one of the better comic book flicks to come out in awhile.

I just finished watching Alexander this afternoon, the one that stars Colin Farrell and Jared Leto, it's one film I haven't watched yet and after watching it, I'm very disappointed. There's more gay shit in it than action scenes. If not for Angelina Jolie I wouldn't have finished it.

Mantis and I watched The Strangers as sort of a late Halloween celebration flick. Basically masked folks who have borderline supernatural stealth skills to the point where I'm convinced that they trained with The League of Shadows from Batman Begins terrorize a couple in a secluded area. It's actually pretty decent horror. Not great but it's better than some of the horror movies that have come out in the past few years. It does a great job of building tension and while it does use jump scares (A pet peeve of mine when it comes to modern horror)it's never used to the point where it becomes obnoxious. It does suffer from some typical horror cliches (Characters in horror movies for some reason can't keep their balance when running) so it does somewhat take away from the experience. It's not gonna rock your world but if you want a tense home invasion movie, this will probably do the trick.